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Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! Showcasing the weekly progress across our building sites. Cladding For Cambridge Exciting progress is happening at our Cambridge Street development! Cladding has officially begun on this 121sqm home, marking a major step in bringing the design to life. This is the stage where everything starts to take shape, and we can’t wait to see it

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! Showcasing the weekly progress across our building sites. Back At Mathieson It’s been a while since our last update, but exciting progress is happening at the Mathieson Street Triplex! This week, we’re full steam ahead with the first cladding being installed. The project began with the demolition of an old villa, paving the way for

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! Showcasing the weekly progress across our building sites. From Church To Preschool It’s the talk of Raine Street! The former St Anne’s Church is being revamped to become the home of Montessori pre-school! The Scaffolding is now in place, allowing Elite Ceilings & Partitions to begin on the suspended ceiling. Strong Electrical were at work

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! Showcasing the weekly progress across our building sites. A New Home For Montessori This week, an exciting project is underway as the former St Anne’s Church is reborn as the future home of Montessori pre-school! Scaffolding is now in place, allowing the team to safely begin work on the interior roof tiling. Meanwhile, thanks to

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! Showcasing the weekly progress across our building sites. A New Roof For A New Week At Cambridge Street, the build of this 121sqm home is progressing at a rapid pace. We’re roof-shout ready, the wall linings are set for cladding, and next up, the windows and doors will be installed. This is the second home

Progress At Cambridge The Cambridge Street project is nearing a major milestone—we’re almost roof-ready! This week, our team has been hard at work installing roof framing and trusses. At 121sqm, this build is progressing beautifully. There are 3 sections left at our Cambridge Street subdivision (Lot 2, Lot 3 & Lot 4) Get in touch with us to discuss your building options,

See the completion of the St George’s School classroom project. Cladding, windows, and doors are installed at Mathieson Street. And Konini Street gets prepped for a roof.

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! The home of Before/After shots, videos, and a general look into what our team achieves in one week. Frames Up At Konini It’s beginning to look a lot like houses! Back in October, we relocated the original Konini Street home to the back of the section to make way for two new builds. This week,

The Weekly Wrap is back for 2025! Find out what we have been doing at St George’s School. A new roof, for a new year, and walls go up at our latest build

Welcome to the final Weekly Wrap of 2024! A New Home For Christmas At Budge Street, Fordell the keys have been handed to the new owners just in time for the festive season! Our clients will be enjoying bbq’s on the patio, looking out to uninterrupted rural views. Moving-in at Waitai There was excitement at Waitai Street this week as

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! The home of Before/After shots, videos, and a general look into what our team achieves in one week. New Beginnings At Cambridge Work has started on a new build at our Cambridge Street development. Lot 5 will be home to a new 3 bedroom, 121sqm home. Last week the retaining walls were completed, with the

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! This week, we’re showing you the progress across a number of our building sites. Watch The Feature Video We have been collecting footage over the last few months, to bring you a video that shows the amazing progress our team has been working on. Watch it now! A Massive Week At Fordell With the kitchen

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! The home of Before and After shots, videos, and a general look into what our team achieves in one week. Making Way For The View At Budge Street in Fordell; the digger has cleared the way for the rural views from the north-facing living area, while also excavating the concrete patio area waiting to be

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! The home of Before and After shots, videos, and a general look into what our team achieves in one week. Big Changes At Waitai Street With a perfect day for photography, we thought it was a good chance to show you the progress at Waitai Street. Last Friday, the Kitchen, dining, and living area floors

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! The home of Before/After shots, videos, and a general look into what our team achieves in one week. 8 Cambridge Street Ready for new Family Our spec home on Cambridge Street is all ready for it’s new owner. If you’re looking for a brand-new home at an affordable price and want to be in before

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! Where we showcase what the team has been up to this week. Konini Infill Last week we saw the team at Brittons move the original home at Konini Street to the back of the section to make way for two new builds on this generous section. This week, the home had been placed in it’s

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! Where we showcase what the team has been up to this week. Movin’ Houses A short week, which started with the awesome team at Brittons moving the original home at Konini Street to the back of the section on Tuesday. This has made way for a brand new build in it’s place at the front,

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! Where we showcase what the team has been up to this week. Transformation at Cambridge It was all hands on deck at Cambridge Street on Friday! The ready lawn was put down and completely transformed the yard. We are absolutely stoked with the results. There are a few small touches to complete and this home

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! Where we showcase what the team has been up to this week. Meet the Team! It was tools-down for a quick team photo at Waitai Street on Thursday. We’re a good looking bunch! There was a request to the photographer, who was asked to photoshop some more muscles on a few of the lads. He

Welcome to the Weekly Wrap! Where we showcase what the team has been up to this week. Mathieson Street Slab Excavation It’s been all go at Mathieson Street. This week saw the demolition of an old villa on the site, and quick work was made of the site cleanup and slab excavation. The site is being prepared for a Venture

Welcome to our first Weekly Wrap! Where we showcase what the team has been up to this week.

The team is seeing great progress at 6 Cambridge Street. The three bedroom home on this development is on track for the completion date. We have seen the external cladding, roof and gib all ticked off. The kitchen is ready for installation, then the electrician, painters & carpet layers will complete the project. It is the perfect time of year

The team from Dowman Contracting made quick work of the site clean-up & excavation at our Mathieson Street development this week, ready for the concrete pour. The goal here is to create a level surface that matches the dimensions needed for the building foundation. The team worked with the engineer to ensure the depth of the excavation would suit the

Progress on Waitai Street is coming along nicely! The team is stoked with the cedar finish, creating a polished look and feel of the home while giving an eye-catching contrast to the darker color scheme. The large wrap-around deck takes advantage of all-day sun, while the stylish entrance ensures protection from weather during the Winter months. A large open-plan kitchen,

Tucked away in amongst some beautiful perimeter planting is this lodge-like architecturally designed home on Waitai Street. The build team on the ground have enjoyed getting stuck in to the placement of the posts which surround the house. These will support the impressive deck/portal area that will be superb for relaxing, reading a novel or entertaining family and friends over

We are in the midst of doing 2 large lifestyle property builds. The first of these architecturally designed houses resides on Clarkson Ave. This stunning house makes the most of it’s hillside location as it looks out to the East toward the heart of Whanganui. The build team has grown since the start of this build, which has been very

This project consisting of these 3 stunning townhouses has now been completed. It was such a pleasure to project manage and build this infill housing project. The site design uses a great mix of spaces designed to maximize each house’s potential and every inch of land. With double garages and ensuite and interesting joinery and blockwork, this project was a

We are delighted that Black Pine Architects are entering our extension/renovation build in Whanganui East into the NZ Architectural awards. While this was completed a while back we are very proud to see this entered into the competition. Our build lead and project manager were involved with all the critical decisions that went into turning a 105sqm 1914 Bungalow into

It has been a productive period at the 55 Smithfield Road building site since our latest update. This is a special infill that has achieved three 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom houses with double garages on a site that is only 12 meters wide and just over a quarter acre in size! What’s more, the houses have a sunny outdoor living space situated

This Smithfield Road project involves 3 houses, 2 with internal double garaging and 1 with detached garaging. The client for this project is an engineer so we had great direction and plans which enabled us to concentrate on making the build side run as efficiently as possible. With 3 houses to work on simultaneously the builders can work throughout most

What a difference a year can make. The old Whanganui Scrap Metal Yard can now be called Venture Build Office and Yard!!In between the various projects the team has been completing this past year, have been days working to get the office and yard completed. Adam and Simon are excited to be working from the Venture Build Office, with the

Adam, Pete and Simon have a combined belief in the importance of having quality builders on each job, plenty of yard space to help reduce delays and a showroom and office for both workers and customers to have a comfortable location to discuss projects. In February 2022, the Venture Build Directors purchased 139 Ridgway St, previously a scrap yard and

Venture Build Directors (Pete, Adam and Simon) have joined forces to create Venture Build. The 3 combine building, project management and business experience. Adam explains, ‘the business now being under Venture Build marks the formalizing of a partnership that has been working well both on the ground and in planning. This partnership has built 10 houses in the last 18